Argumentation Theory

Argumentation theory is an interdiscipliniray field which attracts attention from e.g. philosophers, logicians, computer scientists, linguists, legal scholars and speech communication theorists. Most of the research in this field is informal. It is one of the sources of inspiration for my own work and occasionally I publish in this field. I wrote a paper for ISSA-02 on deductivism and a paper for the Argumentation journal on the relevance of Toulmin's The Uses of Argument for AI & Law, titled AI & Law, logic and argument schemes. At ISSA-2010 I gave a talk with the best title I ever used: argumentation without arguments :-)

Organisations, Resources

• Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
• International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA)
• Criticial Thinking on the Web (maintained by Tim van Gelder's Austhink company)

Workshops and Conferences

• ISSA 2014 Conference on Argumentation.
  Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 1-4 July 2014.
• Conference on Dialectic in Aristotle's Logic
  Groningen (The Netherlands), 2-4 September 2013.
• OSSA 2013 Conference on Virtues of Argumentation.
  Windsor, Ontario (Canada), May 22-25, 2013.

• Workshop on Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction,
  Konstanz (Germany), September 20-21, 2012.
• The 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation: The Role of Argumentation in Society.
  Tokyo (Japan), August 10-12, 2012.
• Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation,
  Lund (Sweden), October 22-23, 2010.
• International Conference on Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking ,
  Santiago (Chile), October 7-9, 2010.
• Graduate Course on Bayesian Argumentation,
  Lund (Sweden), 19-23 April 2010.
• The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric after Fifty Years.
  The University of Oregon, (USA), May 17-20, 2008.
• Vijfde Symposium Juridische Argumentatie
  Rotterdam, (Nederland), 22 juni 2007.
• ISSA Conferences on Argumentation.
  Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
• NCA/AFA Summer Argumentation Conferences
  Alta, Utah (USA) 1979-2007.
• OSSA Conferences on Argumentation 1995-2009, 2011. Windsor, Ontario (Canada).
• Symposium on Argument and Computation.
  Pitlochry (Scotland), June 26 - July 3, 2000.

Books and journals

• Argumentation. An International Journal.
• Chris Reed & Christopher W. Tindale (eds.) Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation. New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation.
• David Hitchcock & Bart Verheij (eds.), Arguing on the Toulmin Model. New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation.
• Bookseries:
  • Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning (Elsevier).
  • Argumentation Library (Kluwer).

Researchers

Other interesting links

• The Toulmin Project (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)